# Best way to block bouncemenet from my email? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339 "2017-09-02T18:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/1 "2017-09-02T18:21:21Z")
Best way to block _bouncemenet_ from my email? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/2 "2017-09-02T18:54:19Z")
What type of e-mail do you have? Outlook? Gmail? Hotmail? Yahoo? ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/3 "2017-09-02T18:57:19Z")
Outlook. I know it might not be the best, but its what I’ve had for years and I really would rather not change. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/4 "2017-09-02T20:15:25Z")
You can set up a rule to automatically filter messages from bouncemenet. > **[Manage email messages by using rules - Microsoft Support](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-email-messages-by-using-rules-c24f5dea-9465-4df4-ad17-a50704d66c59?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us)** > > How to use Outlook rules to automatically move email messages to folders, flag messages for follow-up, respond to messages, create custom rules, and more. I personally set up a folder called “Don’t bug me” and sent filtered messages there so I could check to make sure it wasn’t accidentally filtering off messages that I actually wanted. If they are always coming from the same source, you can just right click on one of those messages and set up a rule to always send mail from that sender to junk. If they aren’t always coming from the same location, you can filter on text, such as “bounceme” in the mail title, to do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/5 "2017-09-03T02:59:44Z")
I kid you not, I first read the OP as ‘best way to buy a bayonet by mail’. I think I need to get my eyes checked again. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/6 "2017-09-03T03:23:48Z")
What is bouncemenet? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/7 "2017-09-03T04:03:20Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > What is bouncemenet? From a quick google search, it’s apparently a web site ( bounceme dot net ) that’s sending viruses that, when activated, display authentic-looking but bogus Windows errors that are hard to get rid of. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/8 "2017-09-03T04:12:16Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > You can set up a rule to automatically filter messages from bouncemenet. > > [Manage email messages by using rules - Microsoft Support](https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-email-messages-by-using-rules-c24f5dea-9465-4df4-ad17-a50704d66c59) > > I personally set up a folder called “Don’t bug me” and sent filtered messages there so I could check to make sure it wasn’t accidentally filtering off messages that I actually wanted. > > If they are always coming from the same source, you can just right click on one of those messages and set up a rule to always send mail from that sender to junk. If they aren’t always coming from the same location, you can filter on text, such as “bounceme” in the mail title, to do the same thing. The problem is that when “I set up a rule”, the address is 65rrewbouncenet. There is no point in setting a rule for this address because the next spam coming is 43fffubouncenet. I tried to erase the new part of the address (65rrew) and just set a rule for bouncenet, but this doesn’t work. New bouncenet spam comes right in. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/9 "2017-09-03T04:38:02Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > The problem is that when “I set up a rule”, the address is 65rrewbouncenet. There is no point in setting a rule for this address because the next spam coming is 43fffubouncenet. I tried to erase the new part of the address (65rrew) and just set a rule for bouncenet, but this doesn’t work. New bouncenet spam comes right in. Are you using “bouncenet” or “_bouncenet_”? the \* is a wild card character. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/10 "2017-09-03T14:51:03Z")
> [@Amblydoper](#): > > Are you using “bouncenet” or “_bouncenet_”? the \* is a wild card character. I using bounce(dot)net. This address is what I need to block. No asterisks. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/11 "2017-09-04T01:38:23Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > I using bounce(dot)net. This address is what I need to block. No asterisks. try blocking _@_.bounce.\* ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-block-bouncemenet-from-my-email/795339/12 "2017-09-04T02:37:18Z")
Thanks, i’ll give it a try.